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**Mr Happy** · 17-04-2008, 14:40

IIRC, its not the round itself is it? Its the burning phos at the back?

**EX_STAB** · 17-04-2008, 14:52

Originally Posted by Mr Happy

IIRC, its not the round itself is it? Its the burning phos at the back?

I've never been able to keep up with them to check! ;)

**.338lapua_magnum** · 17-04-2008, 15:05

You can make 5.56 rattle off corn or barley in a field too, just fire at an angle of less than 5 degrees and hear that wizzz....

**ugly** · 17-04-2008, 15:48

I'm not sure my neighbours cows were impressed!

**Boxy** · 17-04-2008, 16:45

Originally Posted by EX_STAB

Originally Posted by Mr Happy

IIRC, its not the round itself is it? Its the burning phos at the back?

I've never been able to keep up with them to check! ;)

new keyboard required....thanks for that!

**Mr Happy** · 17-04-2008, 16:55

Originally Posted by EX_STAB

Originally Posted by Mr Happy

IIRC, its not the round itself is it? Its the burning phos at the back?

I've never been able to keep up with them to check! ;)

I am told THEY, not THEM, I mean 49 Para, THEY can keep up and out-pace when in full kit with barbed wire tied around their ankles

**ugly** · 17-04-2008, 17:49

bang and bang etc

Worth a gander, do we do firepower demos anymore or do we wait for the first night on deployment?

**EX_STAB** · 17-04-2008, 18:39

Originally Posted by ugly

bang and bang etc

Worth a gander, do we do firepower demos anymore or do we wait for the first night on deployment?

That looks even worse than the firepower video we were shown in the 80's!

The one I remember showed how to shoot up a brick wall with a GPMG and how an 84mm wasn't top choice against buildings. It also showed how a door or heavy table would protect from grenade fragments etc.

**Flying Felix** · 17-04-2008, 19:13

Originally Posted by ugly

bang and bang etc

Worth a gander, do we do firepower demos anymore or do we wait for the first night on deployment?

Good video, not very PC - thank god.

**Vaughany** · 17-04-2008, 19:38

[/quote] not even 300mm cannon fire [/quote]

Christ have they attached railway guns to Apache. When he says " it'll penetrate armour but not mud" he fails to take into account the rounds are designed to melt there way through. I'm led to believe that the people who supply 30mm to the US military are develping a 'mud busting' round.